Lichtspiele:
Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras:
Flag Wars (2003)

A made-for-television documentary by Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras, Flag Wars (2003) was shot over a four-year period in Columbus, Ohio, at a point when white homebuyers were moving into a black, working-class neighborhood. The film documents interpersonal conflicts between different ideas of cultural heritage and freedom of choice and demonstrates the decisive roles of class and racial privilege. The picture is further complicated by the new neighbors identifying as gay and lesbian.

Flag Wars has been consistently described as exposing prejudice on “both sides,” which is undoubtedly true. Yet the film’s perspective is still worthy of debate. A sharp, no-frills documentary that sidesteps the usual TV tropes of urban dispossession, Flag Wars is by equal turns polemical and understated, ambitious and at times unnerving. Its portrayal of the victims of urban redevelopment—or any potential solidarity between them—is couched in a structural analysis that includes micropolitical detail and broader historical developments.

This edition of Lichtspiele is host to REALTY, a long-term KW program of artist commissions and public events, organized by Associate Curator Tirdad Zolghadr.

Part of project: Lichtspiele

Lichtspiele was KW’s new intimate screening and performance series based at Pogo Bar. Taking place at the beginning of each month, this monographic program presented works in dialogue with the artist and audience.

Curator: Mason Leaver-Yap.

Overview
2017–2018

The Wooster Group:
Rumstick Road
6 December 18

Jamie Crewe:
Bucolic Coda
1 November 18

Leon Filter:
MUMMYTHEDADDY
5 April 18

Kat Anderson’s Episodes of Horror:
Gestures
1 March 18

Kat Anderson’s Episodes of Horror:
Gudo: A Wounded Spectacle, mit Skye Skyetshookii
1 February 18

A Farewell to Progress
7 December 17

Brett Story:
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016)
2 November 17

Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras:
Flag Wars (2003)
5 October 17

Evan Ifekoya:
She was a full body speaker standing tall in the corner of the room, “West ​End ​Angel ​Of L​ove T​eacher ​For ​My ​It ​Girl” plays in the background
6 July 17

Ellen Cantor:
Pinochet Porn
7 June 17

MYSTI:
I might simply drift past you… a hiccup in purple… a careless cocksuck with no contact info… memory without name.
11 May 17

Will Holder
”The activity of framing a performance and the intentions that accumulate around that activity produce a certain anxious kind of mode. and I became bothered by that / by the flurry of activity that tends to make so many things.”
6 April 17

Charlotte Prodger:
BRIDGIT
9 March 17

Jamie Crewe:
Potash Lesson
9 February 17

Part of project: REALTY

The project REALTY focused on the role of contemporary art in recent histories of gentrification. These days, it seems one artist, one venue, one model after another is being unmasked as being part of the problem. But we will not be discussing art’s shortcomings yet again. Instead, REALTY asked how art’s international playing field can be put to better use. It insisted on moving beyond critique, and towards an attempt at productive models, however vague or naive. The KW leg of REALTY kicked off in October 2017, with a series of public lectures, workshops, and screenings. The project was conceived by Tirdad Zolghadr, KW’s Associate Curator, and commissioned by KW and Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern.

Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
Curatorial Assistance: Sabrina Herrmann

REALTY was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.

Overview
2017–2022

Book launch Tirdad Zolghadr with Christopher Roth
11 May 22

Ethics as Authorship – A Preliminary Study of Institutional Power Structures
18 December 18

Perma-usage: the case of ZK/U
8 Dezember 18

STATECRAFT
14–18 November 18

SPACECRAFT
8–13 November 18
Larissa Fassler

Emotional Blackmail
2–12 November 18

Gentrify GIF/Realty
23 June 18, 12 pm

Resolution 3: Municipalism (Tehran)
22 April 18, 5 pm

Open Heart Surgery
9 April 18, 2 pm

2nd Working meeting: Kunstbloc and beyond
4 April 18, 6 pm

Resolution 2: Triple TV Propaganda
18 March 18, 3 pm

Resolution 1: Don’t Move!
17 March 18, 3 pm

Workshop
5 October 17, 2 pm

Dellbrügge & de Moll on below papers
4 October 17, 7 pm

Hausgeist
3 October 17, 6 pm